Trainings and Professional Development
Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025
10 am - 12:30pm
ONLINE and Recorded
The Intersection of Trauma and Eating Disorders (2 CE's)
Presenter: Leigh Ann Greenfield, LMFT
Session Description:
A growing body of research connects disordered eating and posttraumatic stress. This talk explores the mechanisms and mediators of the connection, empowering clinicians to understand how trauma and eating disorders mutually reinforce.
The current research indicates that co-occurring disordered eating and PTSD/C-PTSD is best addressed through integrated treatment. This talk outlines best practices for integrated interventions, and presents a review of various modalities that are being effectively utilized with this population.
There will be a special focus on how therapists who work primarily with trauma can expand their scope of practice to the co-occurring trauma and eating disorder population through strong collaboration with a best-practice multidisciplinary team.
Accurately conceptualizing the shared drivers of traumatic stress and disordered eating symptoms and knowing how to provide integrated treatment as a part of a team are the foundations of effective care for this population, which is currently underserved.
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this presentation, participants will be able to:
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Articulate at least two current themes in research linking traumatic stress and disordered eating.
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List at least two mechanisms, such as identity, disruption, dissociation, somatic distress, etc, reinforce the link between traumatic stress and disordered eating.
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Implement existing trauma-informed modalities (Somatic therapies, IFS, TRM, etc) in the treatment of disordered eating.
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Describe the role of trauma treatment in a multidisciplinary approach to disordered eating, and be able to identify their scope of practice in working with two ways individuals with co-occurring traumatic stress and eating disorder diagnoses.
$10 for students
$20 for Associates
$30 for Licensed Therapists
+ $10 CE's
Friday, Sept 19, 2025
Working with Minor Clients: Prepare for Success and Avoid the Pitfalls"
Presenter: Alain Montgomery, JD, CAMFT Staff Attorney
Working with minors requires an understanding of the laws and ethical standards that pertain to minor consent and the authority that minors, and/or others, have over the minor’s clinical information. Additionally, working with minors may involve the need to interact and share information with third parties. During this three (3) hour presentation, CAMFT Staff Attorney Alain Montgomery will review California minor consent laws and common issues related to the confidentiality of the minor’s healthcare information.
Educational Goals:
Participants will gain a better understanding of the applicable laws and the CAMFT ethical standards that relate to minor consent, the release of a minor’s health care information, and conflict of interest issues related to the treatment of minors. As a result of the workshop, participants will be better equipped to make informed and legally and ethically sound decisions when working with minors.
$65
Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025 - 2.0 CE Credits
“Searching for Kapwa”: A Film and Discussion on Colonialism and its Impact on Identity, Belonging, and Mental Healthhe Pitfalls"
Presented by Larry Lariosa, LMFT
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE MOVIE: https://www.searchingforkapwa.com/index.html
Inspired by the pre-colonial Filipino value kapwa, or shared identity, Searching for Kapwa follows the filmmaker’s quest to understand his ancestral roots and find his place in the arc of history. As a child of immigrants and a queer brown person living in polarized America, Larry’s journey unpacks the complicated history of the Philippines, and its lasting impact on the diaspora. Ultimately, the film is a densely layered exploration into what it is to be American, and the legacy of the generations we all carry within us.
Searching for Kapwa was featured in the 2022 United States Asian America Festival, awarded the Kinship Award at the 2023 DisOrient Asian American Film Festival and was the Centerpiece feature at the 2023 San Diego Filipino Film Festival. The film has screened at multiple institutions and organizations, including Stanford University, New York University, and Lytton Center for History and the Public Good. The post-film Q&A with the directors gives the audience an opportunity to engage in deeper, universal conversations about history, mental health, belonging, and identity.
Saturday, Sept. 27, 2025 10:00 -12:30pm
Porn is (Not) Sex Education - A Talk for Professionals, Parents and Teens
Presented by Olyimpia Francis Taylor, MS
Olympia Francis Taylor is the founder of Porn is (Not) Sex Education, a sexual violence prevention and porn literacy curriculum for high school students. Rooted in the reality that porn is this generation’s sex education – 93% of adolescents have seen pornography, while 30% report it’s their “primary source of information about sex” – Porn is (Not) Sex Education equips students with critical knowledge, media literacy skills, and the tools to build equitable partnerships.
Lessons analyze the prevalence of pornography, the power and financial mechanics of the industry, racism and violence in pornographic media, and the way in which porn depicts intimacy, gender, and power.
This presentation welcomes absolutely everyone will cover the following topics. Feedback and questions are welcome and encouraged: if there are additional topics you would like to see included, let Olympia know here!
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Porn as Pedagogy: The Prevalence of Porn Consumption Among Gen Z
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Relationships, Anxiety, and Porn Among Gen Z
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The Porn Industry
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Porn and Social Learning Theory: Observation and Imitation
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Porn and Sexual Violence
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Sexualized Inequity: Race and Gender in Porn
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Porn Literacy: Beyond “It’s Not Realistic”
The question is not if students will receive sex education.
The question is whether we will allow students’ only source of sex education to be porn.
ONLINE - it will not be recorded
Pay what you can - all donations will go to the fabulous speaker (minimum $2)
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC - please share with anyone you want
Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025 - 2 CE Credits
Ethical Integration of Artificial Intelligence with Couples and Families
Dr. Shiri Sadeh-Sharvit is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 20 years of experience working with couples and families in both clinical and academic settings.
MORE DETAILS: https://www.sfcamft.org/event-details/ethical-integration-of-artificial-intelligence-with-couples-and-families
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly entering the world of mental health, but many therapists are unsure how to engage with these technologies in a way that is clinically useful, ethically sound, and relevant to couples and family work. This 2-hour, introductory-level training provides LMFTs with a practical and clinically grounded overview of how AI-enabled tools are being used across behavioral healthcare—and how these tools can support (rather than replace) core elements of the therapeutic relationship. Participants will learn how AI is currently used in psychotherapy, including tools for documentation, session summaries, client screening, and behavioral coaching.
COST:
$25 SFCAMFT Members
$35 NON SFCAMFT Members
$10 Students
$10 for 2 CE's